<p>my son, a junior, is strong in all sciences and in Chinese and French, possibly interested in engineering. Any suggestions for schools to investigate?</p>
<p>It would help if you could give us molre informaton…such as grades, SATs, class rank, ECs etc… </p>
<p>The following schools are considered excellent in Engineering, the Sciences, French and Chinese.</p>
<p>Cornell University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>a lot of the larger colleges that are famous for engineering also have excellent foreign language departments…</p>
<p>He has mostly As in the above classes, including Honors, plus Honors math (AB Caculus); he gets Bs, B+s in English and History, at a very difficult private high school in NYC.
Will take the SAT in May. Is a member of the Asian Cultural Society at his school, has visited China with his school, runs on all three track sports ( not very good, but part of the team), during the summer works as a couselor at a day camp. Re engineering, is also pasionately interested in all things transportation.</p>
<p>any thoughts about Brown? He’s not the Princeton type, based on others he knows who are attending P.</p>
<p>Brown’s science programs aren’t really the best, excluding neuroscience or marine biology (they’re not bad, though).</p>
<p>In addition to Alexandre’s list, I’d like to add:
Columbia University
University of Chicago (VERY good sciences, but no engineering)
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Stanford University
Swarthmore College</p>
<p>Thank you all. This is very helpful. Any opinions on Middlebury? Dickenson?
Pomona? Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Does U. Mich. have a transportation engineering dept and if so does anyone know anything about it?</p>
<p>Middlebury, Pomona and Dickenson won’t have much in way of Engineering. Dartmouth has a mediocre Engineering program.</p>
<p>As for Transportation Engineering, at most universities that have it, it is a sub-department of Industrial or Civil Engineering. Michigan actually has an entire research center devoted to the field, but it is really not an undergraduate focus.</p>
<p>You’re so helpful. Aside from Cornell, is there any relevant school that also has an ornithology dept.? I went to Cornell a long time ago; it was wonderful and pretty laid back. I hear now that it is “cut-throat.” Is that true? What does it mean?</p>
<p>if you want to go the engineering way with Pomona, they have 3-2 programs with Caltech and WashU.</p>
<p>Cornell is generally considered to have the best ornithology “department.” Ornithology programs are hard to find because they are often included in other tracks (ecology, zoology, conservation biology, etc.). That said, the best graduate programs I’ve come across are:</p>
<p>Cornell University-by far the best
University of Connecticut-one of the oldest programs in the nation
Ohio State University-wonderful zoology program, as well as a vet school
Penn State University
Villanova University
McGill University-great resources, including an avian science center
Auburn University-avian center, bird breeding/research labs
College of William and Mary-especially good in marine ornithology
University of Michigan
UC Davis</p>
<p>There are more, but these should get you started.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if any of these offer Chinese or engineering.</p>
<p>At Pomona, could one take engineering at one of the oter “Claremont” colleges?</p>
<p>Thanks - that’s very informative about the Ornithology.
Since Cornell and U. Mich. seem to have the best overlap of his intersts, what is the word on how it is now to go to school there? He is a quirky kid, not an athlete, no “Greek” interest, gets along well with girls and with Asian students more than others, sweet, not terribly sophisiticated socially, not a drinker, gregarious, funny</p>
<p>Sounds like your son will fit in equally well at Cornell and Michigan. The two schools are sufficiently different from one another for a student to have a preference. the best way to find out which is the better fit is to visit both schools.</p>